Sunday, October 4, 2009

ISU Professor Eric Cooper To Run For Iowa Governor

By Mike Malloy
AmesNewsOnline

(Sept. 30, 2009 – 8:30 p.m.) Eric Cooper, an Iowa State University associate professor in psychology and neuroscience, will run for governor next fall as a Libertarian. While Cooper is a veteran of local politics he is anything but a typical politician, as evidenced by his stark admission: “I’m not going to win.”

Victory for Cooper is redefined as finishing third, and receiving at least two percent of the vote, meaning the Libertarian Party would not have to petition or get signatures to be on the ballot in future elections. Cooper also hopes to raise the profile of Libertarians in the hopes that one of the two major parties would be willing to embrace Libertarian ideas.

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(My thanks to Shrink Iowa Gov.)
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  1. BawbOctober 5, 2009 at 7:27 AM

    We wish him all the best. Last term Montana had a single Libertarian in the state legislature, but the Dems and Repubs were equal in number so one or the other often came to him hat in hand. That is an awesome start.

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